Pema Chödrön says : “Loving-kindness towards ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid, jealous or…
Pema Chödrön says : “It’s helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.”
Pema Chödrön says : “Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!”
Paul Wilson says : “Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit – the pleasure of simply being.”
Paramahansa Yogananda says : “It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on…
Natalie Wright says : “Thoughts are like birds in mind; some fly in, some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti says : “The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.”
J. Kleykamp says : “In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.”
German Proverb says : “Silence is a fence around wisdom.”
Epictetus says : “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”